what color are you painting it?
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what color are you painting it?
I painted the cage wrinkle black. It was hard as hell to get even coating. Let's just say I failed. either way here's where I'm at...Quote:
Originally Posted by Spaz
Put some screen on there until I can make up an intake to go around my lower rad hose.
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Here's a back shot all painted. Was installing the interior back in.
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As she sits until the front bumper goes on.
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Here's a couple vids.
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...x/c11e5eff.mp4
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...x/c8058992.mp4
sounds sick!!!
Thanks man. She's come a long way.Quote:
Originally Posted by monjarassi
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She's back on the road fellas. Been a long time comin.
not getting a grill?
what that in its place
Nope no grille. I took the one out to provide max air flow to the oil cooler which is what that is.Quote:
Originally Posted by monjarassi
holy shit with no front bumper that setup looks titties!!!!
I was going to place my oil cooler in the same place you put yours.
Haha. Thanks dude. And man that bumper covers all the goodies don't it? Lol. Not like a civic where you can cut the bumper and it look good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spaz
Wow Adam I'm glad your on the road looks great man I bet your happy to be driving it again !
how the cooling efficiency with the radiator?
She's alive and well!! Awesome man i'm happy its finally done. Vids!?
^yeah any VIDS?!
The radiator absolutely sucks. Got hot on me yesterday. So I contacted all in fab about him making me a radiator. I have to shoot him some measurements tonight after work.
Thanks guys. Driving the car has been amazing. It has so much more power at even my very limited parameters right now. 4 psi cut. Car has a very nice pull and I'm loving the 4.3FD. I have taken a couple videos I'll be sure to post them tonight or tomorrow. I have 400 miles on the setup right now. Looking for 1,000 then I'll tune it up and start hitting the track.
Damn, that sucks that the radiator didn't work out as well as you planned. But an ALL-IN radiator will be sick! Make sure he posts up on the BoostedK20 facebook! And I hope you come to BoostedK20fest so I can see your car in person!
Copy cat :p. JK
Derek is the man
:yeahthat: Keep us updated on part DEUCE!
Update:
Well the radiator is now the least of my problems. I took the car for a simple cruise to just put a couple more miles in for break in. Pulling away from paying my toll I noticed a knocking sound. So I got it to my cousins and by the time I got it there it had gotten a little worse. (only a min or 2 after the toll)
Pull the plugs and see 2-3-4 were lean. Number 1 was caked and baked in oil. We took a camera tool and looked in each cylinder and saw number 1 was covered in oil an 2-3-4 were lean. Meanwhile this motor hasn't seen any hard miles yet. All simple cruises. So we did a compression check and came up with 151,152, 151, 161 (1-2-3-4). The plugs in the car were bkr7e's which is not what I fun in the car so no idea why they were put in. I always run race 9's. Anyways the pans gotta be dropped and have to see If I can't grab ahold of rod 1 and shake to duplicate the noise and go from there.
And my wideband gauge isn't workin correctly I guess because it deff wasnt in lean territory when I did the base map. But the plugs show otherwise.
dam sucks to hear that mann
Holy shit, who put 7's in the car?! I'd flip, how bad do you think is this gonna be?
The shop put 7's in the car but I doubt that had the least bit of factor in it. But regardless it's a high boost car that never ran 7's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Si Speed 317
My guess at this point is a new crank and new pistons. New rod and main bearings, basically here comes a new Motor build...
Thanks dude.Quote:
Originally Posted by monjarassi
Crap dude .. that sucks a fat one!
Where do you live at? I have a k24a1 I'd let you have for a good price.
Its built you'd just have to get some new slugs as it has 13.7:1 wiseco's in it right now.
Hope it isn't as bad as you think it is!
:FUU: When will you know what needs to be done for sure? Keep your head up, I know it sucks but worse things could happen. It's well worth the struggle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Adm_rsx
BoostedK20 member support FTW :spazapproved:Quote:
Originally Posted by k20fg
Thanks for the offer man. This block I have is already got money dumped in and I'm glad I only bored .5mm over so there's still meat on the sleeves for a bigger bore now. I believe I'm going to go with an 88mm bore now. But I should get a good idea this weekend. I'll take and upload pics and my thoughts on the severity of it all.Quote:
Originally Posted by k20fg
Yea man I'm glad I took it where I did when I hear the issue. My cousin had some great tools and is a great mechanic as well. So he had some good thoughts and all to help decipher what's going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by BoostedK20
No good man I'm sorry to hear that :(
Keep us updated
How are things looking?
Motors coming out this weekend. And being pulled down to do a rebuild. Piston #1 has a couple fried rings I'm sure. Took a couple rod ends off and the bearings were still in the right position. They looked a bit scored to me though. What's your opinions???Quote:
Originally Posted by Spoolin_VTEC
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Plug #1 heat range 7 plug. (not a damn clue why they were put in.) oil is baked on the ceramic part of the plug. Breakkleen and a wire brush didn't do and good.
http://i823.photobucket.com/albums/z...x/1c039bc8.jpg
More pics and all to come once the motor starts coming out.
This is the second time I've heard of people putting in BKR7EIX plugs in on built motors. WTF?! Grab some BKR9EIX plugs, gap to .018-.020 and enjoy. As for if they are scored, I can't help. I have no clue.
Well guys I tore apart the motor and found piston #1 to be scarred up. Here's a few pics of #1 and #2 pistons
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dam why??
wow that is intense...
:puke::deadhorse::FUU: Now what?
That lies the issue. I'm not sure what happened. Some say it was lean, some say detonation, some say ring/piston failed.
All in all I have no clue. But what I do know is I will need to go 88-89mm bore which will require new pistons ect.
ouch! :puke:
Damn. This is why I'm afraid to build my motor. I always hear of how shops do poor jobs, accidents like this happening, etc. I wish I knew what to tell you man. Any weak parts in your build?
Not really anything weak. I used wiseco's, upgraded pins, Manley turbo tuff Rods, acl race bearings, arp rod bolts head studs ect. I'm looking at Manley pistons now for the build. 89mm. Gonna have them heat coated or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Si Speed 317
Definitely no weak links.. which makes this a hard thing to diagnose for anyone I would imagine. And that should be quite a nice build. What hg are you going to go with?